Thomas Sowell Quotes
Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
Randy Pausch
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
Qandeel Baloch
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
Gail Sheehy
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
Dana Torres
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
Lady Gaga
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
Ted Deutch
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've never abandoned the novel.
V. S. Naipaul
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
Gary Lineker
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
Feist
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Faith is never identical with piety.
Karl Barth
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Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
Aaron Tveit
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The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
Blake Griffin
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In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.
Douglas Rushkoff
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
T. C. Boyle
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Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.
Megan Fox
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?
Thomas Sowell